Covering means for joints in electric cables.



Patented may 27, |902.

C. LUKE.

COVERING MEANS FOR JOINTS IN ELECTRIC CABLES.

(Application filed Mar. 10, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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CHARLES LUKE, OF MILFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE NEV HAVEN NOVELTY MACHINE COMPANY, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

COVERING MElANS FOR JOINTS IN ELECTRIC CABLES.Y

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 701,209, dated May 27, 1902.

Application led March l0, 1902.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES LUKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Milford, county of New Haven, State of Connecticut,

have invented an Improvement in Covering Means for Joints in Electric Cables, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specication, like characters on the drawings reprero senting like parts.

The cables used in circuits for electric lighting and power are united at intervals, and much difficulty is experienced in protecting the cable where spliced, so that moisture and I5 dampness cannot get to the wires or conductors. The central core of the cable is composed of numerous copper wires surrounded by an insulating medium, and the insulatingr medium is inclosed in a lead pipe, and where 2o the ends of the copper wires are to be joined the insulating medium and the lead covering are cut away.

I have devised means for covering water and moisture tight the jointat the ends of` two lengths of cable.

Figure l shows the ends of two lengths of cable united and covered by the means devised by me; and Fig. 2 is a section in the line Fig. l.

The central core A of the cable, composed of any desired number of separate copper Wires, is incased in an insulating medium AQ supposed to be composed of india-rubber or other insulating compound, and the insulating medium is sheathed or incased, preferably, by lead pipe B. Tozsplice the ends of the wires of the cable the insulating medium and the lead pipe are removed to expose the wires that they may be soldered together to 4o act as a continuous cable.

My novel cover C is composed of a metallic sleeve c', having extended from its ends hollow hubs c2 c3, represented as inclined, the holes in the hubs substantially filling the exterior of the lead pipe. Before uniting the ends of the cable the sleeve having its hubs securely attached, preferably by solder or otherwise, water-tight is slipped over the end of one of the lengths of cable, and the ends of 5o the wire are brought in contact, as shown in Fig. l, inside of a metallic ring (l, and there Serial No. 97.532. (No model.)

after by usual solder or brazing material d is applied to the ring CZ and the wire and the electrical junction of the wires is effected. This done, the sleeve is moved along the cable into the position Fig. l, and if the movement of the sleeve was in the direction ot` the arrow the hub c2 was passed over the end of the lead pipe at the left of the junction ofthe cable. Vhen the sleeve is in proper position and the sheath or covering is of lead pipe, the sleeve is locked iirmly in place by means of locking means e, shown as prongs carried by the hubs, said prongs being struck and their ends inturned, as shown at the left, Fig. l, to enter the pipe more or less, to thus iix the sleeve and hubs with relation to the pipe. After this I may apply solder to the inclined outer ends of the hubs c2 o3, as at f, the solder running down the inclined surfaces at the ends of the hubs and filling the pipe, thus making a water-tight joint between the hubs and the pipe. I mayalso fill the spaces left by inturning the prongs e with solder, as shown at f'. The sleeve is provided with two open holes S et. Any suitable insulating medium may be poured into the holes 3 until the sleeve is iilled, the insulation surrounding the lead pipe and the wire of the cable, the air escaping through the hole 4.. After the sleeve has been lled the holes 3 and 4 maybe closed by solder or otherwise.

The connection shown may be applied to the cable quickly, and it affords complete protection against water or moisture getting to the cable, and, further, it acts to prevent longitudinal movement of one part of the cable with relation to another part that might put strain on the joint made in the ring d.

The hubs c2 c" are reduced externally to enter the ends of the sleeve and about a shoulder G, each hub abutting a shoulder of the sleeve.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. Covering means for spliced joints. of sheathed cables, comprising a sleeve having extended fixed hubs embracing the sheath of each cable at opposite sides of the junction of the ends of the wires of the cables, leaving the ends of the sheaths inside the sleeve that IOO said ends and the Wires of the cables may be inclosed by an insulating medium run into the sleeve.

2. Covering: means for spliced joints of sheathed cables, comprising a sleeve having` extended Xcd hubs embracingr the sheath of each cable at opposite sides of the junction of the ends of the Wires of the cable, leaving the ends of the sheaths inside the sleeve that said ends and the Wires of the cables may bev inclosed by an insulating medium run into 'the sleeve, the ends of said hubs being' inclosed and soldered tc the sheaves of the cables.

8. Covering` means for spliced joints of sheathed cables, comprising a sleeve having extended 'fixed hubs to embrace the sheaths of the cables at opposite sides the junction name to this specification in the presence of 3o two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES LUKE.

Witnesses:

GEO. W. GREGORY, THOMAS J. DRUMMOND. 

